House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, showed off a chart Thursday as he explained why he was hesitant about cutting income taxes as proposed by Gov. Mike Pence.

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The Indiana House Republican leader is giving the green light to a GOP bid to expand the power of the Indianapolis mayor and reduce the size of the City-County Council - opening the door to a potentially nasty partisan fight with Democratic lawmakers.

The bill sailed through the Senate last month. Now Speaker Brian Bosma has indicated to The Indianapolis Star that he won't stop it in the House, saying it's time to look at fine-tuning Marion County's Uni-Gov system.

That's despite Democrats' attempts to look for ways to derail the bill - including a threat last week by Sen. Jean Breaux, ...